More detailed and informative than ArtWow's Human Body tutorial listed below, The Human Eye gives lots of detailed tips on how to bring life and realism to your drawings of the eye. Highly recommended.

Tip: Unless you have a really ancient browser, choose "Dynamic Lessons." If you're just beginning to draw, check out this page.

Sanford, the art supplies people, created this interactive art site with more art lesssons and technique demonstrations than can possibly be listed here. It's aimed at children, but useful for beginners of any age.

Collaborate with others in real-time to create drawings and animation. Take a snapshot of your drawing and add it to the Gallery. Join an online community of artists to create a spectacular, ever evolving hand-drawn film.

Tip: What you Need: 1)A Java enabled web browser.
2) Patience, if you have a 56k or slower connection to the Internet. At 56 kbps, it will take about 25 seconds to load the drawing applet.

Tip: The gallery of snapshots shows 1) what's possible with this wonderful creative online tool, and 2) how much fun artists of all ages are having on this truly wonderful site.

An 8-part tutorial (27 lessons) for beginning painters or anyone who wants to know what goes into creating a painting. Covers Perspective, Color, Light and Shade, Texture, Analysis, and Practical Applications.

Out of the basics covered in Painting Beyond Fashion (see Dr. Brain's review, above) and into the dizzying realms of advanced techniques. Advanced lessons on Perspective, Applications, Textures, and Color. Includes demonstrations.

Tip: All J.L. Hagan's lessons are available from this site on CD, to study and use offline.

Step-by-Step instructions and tips for getting the proper proportions into your drawings of the human body, male and female.

Tip: The main body of the tutorial consists of only a few top-level tips, so be sure to go through all the tips in Body Divisions to get to the real heart of the lessons. If you're just beginning to draw, check out this page.

Photographs, site plans, architects drawing, floor plans, architect biographies, and links to more information for a thousand famous buildings, past and present. Search site by Building, Architect, Type, Place.

A beautiful and deeply interactive overview of world art history through chronology, maps, and themes, highlighting items in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Includes fabulous videos.

Tip: Changes regularly. Extends to 1400 a.d. as of this review, but will eventually extend to the present day. Bookmark and visit often.

Tip: Check out the Navigating the Timeline link at the bottom of the page.

Simply tons of information on artists, art movements, and individual works, plus tours of special areas, and a section on art criticism (http://artchive.com/critic.htm - Warning: annoying blinking banner alert for this page) for the truly devoted.

Bonus: Free wallpaper, with a new image every month. Vote for the next one yourself.

Nick Sullivan, author of The Seventh Princess, presents the free NoteCard
music reading tutorial. 12 levels of difficulty progressing until the entire musical staff has been mastered. Other great tutors and games available as well.

No actual lessons here, but tons of good info and advice you need before beginning to study the piano. Includes tips on finding and choosing a piano teacher, studio etiquette, self-study, and much more.

This basic music learning site from the San Francisco Symphony is a shining example of how the web excels in education when designers know how to make use of it. Covers staff, signatures, notes, tempo, pitch, rhythm, harmony, symbols, and instrumentation. The Performalator and Composerizer are great interactive toools to get kids excited about music.

Tip: Don't overlook the Radio link at the top of the page. Six channels of SFSKids Radio offer even more musical learning and fun. More selections become available as you listen to each channel. While it's loading, watch the animation that illustrates the duration of each type of musical note.

The San Francisco Symphony presents a basic introduction to musical instruments and how they are played. Photos and sound files accompany each instrument, and a text window gives lots of interesting facts.

Tip: Be sure to use the up and down arrows to the right of the text to see more about each instrument, and click the Sound On button if you want to hear the instrument play. Also, in the upper right corner of each instrument window is a link to view the instrument in a Quicktime VR window.

The complete lyrics to "This Land is Your Land," a photo essay on Woody Guthrie, and a tribute by Pete Seeger. CD Includes nine popular folk songs performed by Woody and Arlo Guthrie. Full-color illustrations.

The remarkably clever Java Applet on this site is used to train your ears to hear musical intervals. Dr. Brain would have thrown in another brain but for the fact that it's not terribly intuitive. Recommended for intermediate to advanced music students.

Apple's QuickTime is practically the de facto industry standard for digital movies on the Web - now you can learn how to put music to your QuickTime movies. You will, of course, need to download the QuickTime Player.